LAST ARCHIVED: 28/02/2009

• Quarto Publishing (Search Press) have recently published a very attractive new book entitled The Landscape Artist's Drawing Bible edited by Hazel Harrison. This beautifully illustrated book is full of essential tips and techniques to improve your drawing skills and demonstrate the potential of various drawing media. It is full of well illustrated step-by-step tutorials covering all aspects of landscape drawing. For ease of use it is spiral bound to ensure that it stays open at your page. It retails at £12.99.
  
  The book has a gallery section with a selection of pictures by various artists depicting different types of landscape and landscape features. I have three full page pictures in this section as follows:



Dancing Trees

Ravens at Garn Turne Rocks, St David's

Finches at Treleddyn, St David's



• The May 2008 edition of Artists & Illustrators magazine carries a well-illustrated five page feature on me and my work.
  
  
• I am currently engaged in an ongoing programme of illustration work for the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority. In 2006 I was commissioned to provide the illustrations for a leaflet describing the industrial trail and heritage at Porthgain, on the north Pembrokeshire coast. This involved two large illustrations depicting an aerial oblique view of the area together with some supplementary drawings of buildings, boats and wildlife, etc.
  
  This approach has now been adopted for a series of plinth-supported interpretive panels at various sites throughout the National Park and I have now completed illustrations for panels for Solva, Freshwater East, Tenby, Angle, Manorbier and St Davids and for a trail leaflet for Nevern. Panels for Newport and Newgale are in the pipeline together with a variety of other locations. Each one incorporates an aerial oblique illustration of the areas as the main visual feature.
  
  I have also produced the illustrations for 4 panels for the Tenby Town Trail as well as a 16-page booklet, designed for children, incorporating a Welsh dragon character called Owain, who acts as a guide to this lovely, historic, seaside town.
  
  
• Bluestone, the new and prestigious holiday village in Pembrokeshire, opened for business in early August 2008. As part of the 'Pembrokeshire Experience' which is central to their theme, the proprietors appointed myself and two other Pembrokeshire artists, Annabel Greenhalgh and Andrea Kelland, to supply framed prints to hang in their lodges, cottages, apartments and public areas. The pictures depict various locations and aspects of the Pembrokeshire landscape and seascape.